Hoekstra Uses Airline Attack To Raise Money For Gubernatorial Campaign

[babylonsister]

This is disgusting, but I'm not surprised. :grr:

http://tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com/2009/12/hoekstra-uses-airline-attack-to-raise-money-for-gubernatorial-campaign.php?ref=fpa

Hoekstra Uses Airline Attack To Raise Money For Gubernatorial Campaign
Eric Kleefeld | December 29, 2009, 9:44AM


Rep. Pete Hoekstra (R-MI) is now jumping upon the the Northwest Airlines attack -- and using it to raise money for his gubernatorial campaign, the Grand Rapids Press reports.

In the letter, Hoekstra denounces the Obama administration on a whole range of national security issues -- ranging from Flight 253 itself to Guantanamo Bay, investigation of the interrogation techniques used during the Bush administration, and what Hoekstra calls Obama policies that "impress the 'Blame America First' crowd at home and his thousands of fans overseas."

By contrast, Hoekstra promises to stand up for Michigan. And he asks for your financial help to do it:

They just don't get it. The system didn't "work" here. Far from it! It is insulting that The Obama administration would make such a claim, but then again, these are the same weak-kneed liberals who have recently tried to bring Guantanamo Bay terrorists right here to Michigan!

My promise to you, as your governor, my first duty and most solemn responsibility is to keep Michigan safe!

For almost a decade I have been a leader on National Security and at the forefront of the war on terror. I understand the real and continuing threat radical jihadists pose to our great state of Michigan and our great Nation.

I have pledged that I will do "everything possible" to prevent these terrorists from coming to Michigan.

But I need your help.

If you agree that we need a Governor who will stand up the Obama/Pelosi efforts to weaken our security please make a most generous contribution of $25, $50, $100 or even $250 to my campaign.

(Special thanks to TPM Reader BL.)

[blondeatlast]

1. "...everything possible..." Meaning I'll stomp my feet, bluster, and wave my finger--as long

as there is a camera nearby.

Campaign contribution? A dandy idea; who is your best Democratic opponent?

[Way2go]

2. Hoekstra's heist may be based on a hoax

What if the "terror plot" was an intelligence services setup?

[babylonsister]

3. What if it wasn't? Still no reason for Hoekstra to try to make money off of it. nt

[blondeatlast]

4. It wasn't, but even if it was, Hoekstra should not be exploiting it.

It's really pretty simple.

[Way2go]

8. And you know it wasn't...how do you know that? nt

[proud2BlibKansan]

5. I am one who doubts the whole story

I am in the minority but I still think it's all a bunch of overblown bullshit.

[Way2go]

9. Well-informed people who THINK, recognize that it fits a

well-established pattern of an intelligence operation.

[tmyers09]

6. He's disgusting, he's a jackass,

which is why I will see to it that he loses by a landslide in 2010, keeping the piece of shit out of the governor's mansion and out of Congress for good.

[Bitwit1234]

7. Mr. Immigrant

pans other people who want to come to this country. But he is an immigrant himself. He was born in the Netherlands.

[Romulox]

10. Michigan's a microcosm of how dangerous a void in Democratic leadership is...

Or, in the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is king...